Famous Quotes

"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."

Rebecca West on Intelligence

More quotes about Intelligence

• "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

More quotes by Rebecca West

• "Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience."

• "A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere."

• "Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."

• "There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience."

• "It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk."